Kenyan McDuffie, a fourth-generation Washingtonian, grew up in a small tight-knit community called Stronghold in Northeast DC. Kenyan worked as a mail carrier to pay his way through college, went to law school, became a prosecutor including in the Department of Justice’s civil rights division, fighting for victims and fairness. For more than a decade on the Council, he has built a reputation as DC’s trusted leader who turns big ideas into real results to address DC’s greatest challenges with affordable housing, public safety and income inequality.